About Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.
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Awards & Honors
International Prize for Biology
Brewster Medal
Balzan Prize
National Medal of Science
Darwin Medal
Darwin–Wallace Medal
George Sarton Medal
Linnean Medal
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Treviranus Medal
Loye and Alden Miller Research Award
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
Elliott Coues Award
Eisenmann Medal
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Godman-Salvin Medal
Gregor Mendel Medal
Leidy Award
doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University
honorary doctor of the University of Vienna
Crafoord Prize in Biosciences
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
honorary doctor of the French National Museum of Natural History
Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
